Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6769189-20191202105007/@comment-7515480-20191203042134

I had no intention to keep this up like I said. Making characters who everyone loves look bad to try to make another character look good who still isn't being accepted across the board, since a good porion of the fanbase still thinks he should have no business being around, isn't how you move forward with your franchise. Replacing Dante with a polarizing character who does nothing but feed off of his popularity seems counter-productive. Nero is to DMC what Roman Reigns is to WWE. He has his fans but the majority of the audience can see through what WWE is trying to do with him and they can't accept him due to the notion of him being forced down their throats. Why does Dante keep looking older with each entry while Lady for instance seems to be getting younger? Because they want to give you the impression that Dante is "the past" while Nero is "the future". It's not working. Nero IS the black sheep of this series.

Also sending Dante and Vergil to the demon world for the umpteenth time isn't wrapping up any loose ends. Not to mention it's beyond disrespectful to Dante's character to write him off in a game where he's not even the protagonist. It makes no sense.

Don't take this the wrong way, but when all is said and done, it makes little diffence how any of us personally feel about Nero's character. The fact of the matter is since the moment he was introduced he's being forced into a position that he never earned, due to Capcom's embarrassing lack of ideas for more Dante's stories. Which is even more ironic given that DMC4(and 5) are just another coming-of-age story like DMC3 was. If you want to keep watching Capcom taking a dump on the characters who made this franchise for the sake of pushing someone who never earned it, more power to you.